The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Content + Design
Hosted by Gladys Diandoki & Janine Griffin
This intersectional group explores the intricate relationship between content and design, emphasizing their essential collaboration in creating effective outputs.
2 PM ET Mindfulness & Modeling
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf & Suzan Quick
This thoughtful group explores the parallels between mindfulness and modeling, emphasizing the integration of mind and body, the significance of presence over outcomes, and the patterns that help us remember what matters.
1 PM ET PUBLIC Ask Me Anything
Hosted by Abby Covert
A public session where you can ask Abby Covert anything about information architecture, sensemaking, and beyond.
2 PM ET Knowledge Management & Governance
Hosted by Dina Bennett & Jane Leuchter
This lively group focuses on collaborative efforts in knowledge management and governance, bringing together individuals tackling complex documentation and change proposals.
12 PM ET Diagram Critique
Hosted by Abby Covert
A student session for workshopping and getting feedback on diagrams in a supportive, expert-led environment.
2 PM ET Career Transitions
Hosted by Mike Creech & Chloe Westman
This supportive group focuses on navigating the challenges and opportunities of career transitions, whether you're changing roles, industries, or re-entering the workforce.
2 PM ET IA Office Hours
Hosted by Abby Covert
A steady group focused on a monthly theme in information architecture.
What’s going on?
Week of May 4, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week started off strong with Making Sense of Your Values in Tech, where members wrestled with the tension between quality and speed in tech organizations, specifically the quiet courage it takes to push back when systems reward performance over substance. On Tuesday, Making Sense of the Future ran its fourth session of an ongoing series using speculative fiction as a sensemaking tool, asking participants to write first-person stories set five years out from a signal they'd noticed in their present-day lives, then examining what those stories revealed about hidden assumptions and small changes they could make right now. This month’s Sensemaking Lab for premium members went deep on AI delegation, information architecture, and the thorny politics of difficult clients — with a running undercurrent of anxiety about who controls AI's trajectory and what accountability even looks like at this scale. The week closed with Making Sense of Neurodiversity & Neuroinclusion, a candid conversation about navigating change as neurodivergent people — the exhausting, unexpected kind — touching on parental health crises, burnout recovery, safe spaces, and the small rituals that make life manageable.
Themes from last week:
- The case for acting on signals rather than spiraling
- Slowness as a value and why no one will let you have it
- Who controls the tools and what happens to the people who understand them
SPECIAL EVENT
May 15, 2026
12 to 3 PM ET
Sensemakers Salon
The Sensemakers Salon is a FREE half-day of soulful activities, mutual aid workshops & discussions that matter to our members, but open to the public.